[untitled; gabe saporta/brendon urie and their firstborn child, 2005 words]

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Title: Untitled
Author: blindmadness
Word Count: 2005
Characters/Pairing: All of Panic at the Disco and Cobra Starship, Pete Wentz; Gabe Saporta/Brendon Urie, mentions of Brendon Urie/Ryan Ross, Spencer Smith/Jon Walker, and Ryland Blackinton/Alex Suarez
Rating: PG, I guess?
Fandom/'Verse: Bandom! \o/
Summary: My very first RPS ever, because rhombal requested it on that I'll-tell-you-about-the-firstborn-of-any-two-characters meme. And, uh, I kind of went overboard because the word "short" next to "fic" does not tend to compute with me. Yeah.

They've met on and off a few times, of course -- Gabe loves Ryan with the fervor that he loves the handful of people from their label who are close to him ("close" being a relative word, and it's not like it takes much for someone to merit this level of love from him) and they've toured together, after all, back before Cobra Starship made it big, only a month or two after their first album was out. Their bands' paths cross as often as any within the FBR/Decaydance circle, but Cobra Starship's more often than not with The Academy Is... above anyone else and after all that time in the mountains, Panic's still trying to get used to being with everyone else again, not to mention that they've both got tours going on and off through the next few months.

Still, Fueled By Ramen might as well be renamed Fueled By Weird Shit, because Gabe seems to know right away when Brendon wakes up a girl.

Really, none of them are particularly surprised when it happens. They're just relieved it's happened only a few days before the end of their tour, so they can pass him -- her -- off as a guest vocalist due to Brendon's illness. (In a way, it's true. There's something preventing him from singing, after all, even if nothing's preventing her.) The fans object until they see how many of Brendon's mannerisms the new girl has, how willing she is to be silly and make ridiculous faces and grin meaningfully at Ryan and how much like Brendon's her voice sounds. (Really, it's amazing that no one suspects. They just figure that the world is less tolerant of weird shit than Pete Wentz's harem is.)

And shortly after the tour ends and the band prepares to withdraw a little until Brendon gets back to normal, Gabe crosses the sixteen miles between the start of his band's tour and the end of Panic's and asks, delightedly, if it's true that Brendon is now a girl, and bemoans the tragic fate that leads him to suffer never waking up with one of his band members becoming a girl. (Ryan wonders, wryly, if maybe this is because Gabe already has a girl in his band; Gabe dismisses this by claiming that Vicky-T's already possibly the most masculine member of the band. No one disputes this.)

Still, the point is that Gabe is fascinated and maybe "starstruck" isn't the right word to describe how Brendon feels -- her band's bigger than Gabe's, after all -- but it's Gabe Saporta, larger than life and practically dripping with charm and, when on his game and talking to someone who's maybe a little too drunk, completely impossible to resist. And so the morning Warped Tour starts, Gabe leaves Panic looking utterly pleased with himself and Brendon might be grinning stupidly the entire day, to the point where the others wonder if it's ethical to throw water balloons at a girl if she's usually male. (Four soaking-wet and shrieks of laughter-filled hours later, the answer is decided to be a resounding yes.)

They're only a little worried when Brendon stays a girl for another month, and only a little more so when the morning sickness hits. Breasts or not, Brendon's Brendon, so the obvious doesn't occur to them. Spencer thinks of it first, only a few days later, and surreptitiously purchases a home pregnancy test, offering it to Brendon and telling her, without ceremony, to piss on it. When the implications set in, Brendon nearly passes out, but she hurries to confirm Spencer's suspicions -- and, true to the hormonal nature of pregnant women, bursts into tears when she has to tell Jon and Ryan about it. (Ryan spends a good hour or so berating her for not thinking to use a condom because this is Gabe Saporta, who can even guess what sort of exotic cult of cobra-themed STDs he could be harbouring, and it never occurs to Brendon that it's derived half from being worried out of his mind and half maybe sort of kind of a tiny bit jealous.)

The band goes into complete avoidance of anything resembling the press after that, with Pete's help; no matter how much of a press magnet he is, he can be a powerful force for the opposite if he so wishes, and he carefully leaks the story about Brendon's girlfriend's pregnancy and adds that the band is going on hiatus to support him. Then, because he's Pete Wentz, he manages to convince the other bands as well as his own to occupy the press in the months until the delivery. (He may or may not be kidding when, in response to Brendon's profound gratitude, he says that all he's asking for in return is that the baby be named for him if it’s a boy, but Brendon takes him up on it quite solemnly. Ryan, Jon, and Spencer already kind of worry for this kid's future.)

Gabe, predictably, is utterly thrilled that there'll soon be a baby cobra coming into the world. He's somewhat put out by having to wait nine whole months for said baby cobra, but promises to be around for whatever help may be required. (Later, Ryland and Alex explain to him very patiently that no, excitedly announcing at concerts that he's Brendon Urie's babydaddy and painting nursery walls with diagrams of future basements as an exercise in father-child bonding doesn’t count as "whatever help may be required.")

Eventually, the due date rolls around and passes; the baby is two weeks late, which everyone involved takes as a sign of the bad influences in the baby's life. It's a girl, though, and there are no complications when she's born on March 26, 2009; she's perfectly healthy, a good solid weight and head lightly fuzzed with dark hair, and is soon watching everything with enormous dark eyes before starting to cry at the top of her lungs before falling asleep so peacefully that the thought of her crying seems unimaginable. Every single member of both bands is immediately, helplessly, completely in love.

Brendon (who, happily, turns male again only a few days later and so isn't forced to deal with breast-feeding on top of everything else) names her Georgiana, because neither Spencer nor Jon's names translate too well to female ones. Gabe christens her Victoria, then worriedly asks Alex and Nate if they mind being passed over for the one real female name among their band. (Nate just sort of stares and Alex quickly reassures him that no, he doesn't have to worry, it's completely fine, he's sure they’ll survive lacking that particular honour in their lives.) Overall, everyone's pretty pleased with the outcome of the birth -- Georgiana Victoria Urie is, after all, a much better name than Peter Lewis Kingston Rylanatelex Urie IV.

From an early age, George (as she insists on being called, much to Ryan's amusion) is absolutely lovely -- she starts out an adorable child, grows into a pretty girl, and then somewhere around her early teens, she abruptly becomes stunningly gorgeous (setting her many uncles into fits of protectiveness). She's just a little taller than average, maybe 5'7", and thin, of course, though with respectable curves along with it. She keeps her dark hair about shoulder-length, usually half-up and half-down, and enjoys outrageous makeup (a la her daddy's band in its early years) whenever she can get away with it, but otherwise learns how to apply simple eyeliner from her Uncle Pete.

Most of the bands on the label adopt George without reservation, and she refers to almost everyone in her fathers' circles as Uncle or Aunt. Being raised in that sort of environment (along with her Uncles Jon and Spencer and Uncles Ryland and Alex) means that she's utterly and completely okay with gay, to the point where she vastly prefers girls to boys maybe 80% of the time. Her rather crazy personality and strange quirks can be attributed to her father and Uncle Pete, though her favourite uncles are actually the aforementioned couples and she wants to be exactly like her Aunt Vicky-T when she grows up, including being the only girl in a band (but we'll get back to that later).

George is mostly raised in a rather free-spirited way -- Panic tries not to schedule any tours during her formative years, but it becomes inevitable sometimes, and so she's handed off to the Cobras, the Hushies, TAI, FOB, or some combination of the above for a few months at a time while her immediate family does their duty for the music scene. Even the weirdest and least serious of them understand that raising her is fairly serious business and do their best to keep her away from the darker sides of the lives as she's growing up (Travis will eventually claim the honour of being the first to introduce her to pot, which she never takes to quite as much as certain people in her inner circle but will indulge in from time to time). As a result of this, George's fun-loving, energetic, enthusiastic side is the one most often revealed, especially in her impressions of people, like her Uncle Ryan (who eventually made her daddy stop being stupid about their getting together, but who'll forever be Uncle Ryan to her)'s monotone and Uncle Nate's wide-eyed stare; still, she does know when to be serious and work hard, and she's extremely intelligent, though she rarely shows it in conventional ways. She loves and respects everyone she was raised around and will usually bow to their judgment if they insist she's going about something the wrong way (but when she's utterly convinced that she's right, absolutely nothing can make her do otherwise or admit she's wrong).

Now, back to the inevitability of bands -- George is raised living and breathing music. She learns, at an early age, the guitar, the bass, the piano, and the drums (the last of which she's unfortunately worst at, which has always made her kind of sad); she practices them all diligently as she gets older, but because of the fact that she's never put serious effort into improving on any, she's just decent at all of them. Her voice, though, is strong and powerful and indomitable even when backed by other instruments, and maybe it's really nothing more than fate that destines her made to be a frontwoman.

Once she gets her GED (she's half-tutored and half-self-schooled, as she has a genuine interest in most subjects and when she's interested in something, her natural laziness can be overpowered by her passion), she enlists the help of her media-inclined uncles to spread the word about auditions she’s holding for a band (because she really hasn't had much of a chance to socialize with people her own age and she's hoping this'll get her a larger variety). She gets a lot of people only interested in seeing people from the label (as a good deal of them haven't toured in years), but thankfully, the bodyguards manage to screen most of them out.

Eventually, George picks two guitarists, a bassist, and a drummer, all nineteen or in their early twenties, all male except for the lead guitarist, with whom (in the tradition of those who came before her) George takes to happily spending her nights. The band is named 1408, after the Stephen King short story, and their sound is about half real, intense rock and half simply the band expanding energy and enthusiasm into having fun with their music. The duality of the sound appeals to a lot of fans, as well as labels; Pete signs them, of course, but only after they've gotten offers from other labels, so that it doesn't look like favouritism (this is at George's request). Patrick helps produce the first album, of course, and George insists on having half the tracks guest-star someone else from the label on assorted instruments. They're currently readying for their first national tour as headliners.